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§1 Plant

Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume var. benzoin

vernacular northern spicebush — variety · Lauraceae


USDA
LIBEB
GBIF
5371740 syn.
Rank
variety
northern spicebush (Lindera benzoin var. benzoin)
Platephotograph · Sandy WolkenbergCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Lauraceae Juss.
Genus
Lindera
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 338 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 338 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 338 counties across 16 states/territories.

District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 53 N
Indiana view state ↗ 76 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N
Maine view state ↗ 1 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 72 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N
New York view state ↗ 40 N
Ohio view state ↗ 7 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N
Vermont view state ↗ 7 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 49 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LIBEB ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5371740 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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